Sentences with phrase «week album sales»

Not exact matches

Those downloads, along with sales of physical CDs, put Adele on track to sell 2.5 million albums in the first week, which Nielsen measures from Friday through Thursday.

The rise of Tidal to the top was undoubtedly helped by West's decision to hold back the sale of his latest album on his website for a week, giving the new streaming site true exclusivity over competitors like Spotify and Apple Music, and a golden chance to gain new subscribers:

Last week, it took just four days for the album to break the 15 year - old first - week sales record held by NSync's 2000 album «No Strings Attached.»

The figures for «25» were the biggest single - week sales tally for an album since Nielsen began tracking sales in 1991.

While certainly a success for the year, the all - time record for album sales still belongs to Adele, who sold 3.37 m copies of her album 25 during its first week on the market in 2015.

No artist today can match Swift's popularity: her new album 1989 has sold nearly 1.7 million copies nationwide in its first two weeks on sale, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

Sure, its numbers were goosed by Amazon's 99 cents promotion, but the fact remains that the pop star's Born This Way became just the 17th album to move more than a million units in its first week in the U.S. since SoundScan started tracking sales in 1991.

The band that dominated your high school life sold 186,000 «equivalent albums» — adjusted to take streaming songs and full albums into account — of their brand new full length California Of that number, 172,000 were traditional album sales, which is the third largest week for a rock album this year.

Lazaretto is Jack White's second number one album of his career, cranking out 138,000 sales in its first week — about the same amount his last album, Blunderbuss, did in its first week.

This weeks top - selling bluegrass albums, ranked by sales data as compiled by Nielsen Music.

Featuring songs penned by the Oscar - and Tony - winning team of Benj Pasek & Justin Paul (La La Land, Dear Evan Hansen) The Greatest Showman soundtrack shifted 106,000 units for the week ending January 4, of which 78,000 were traditional album sales.

To celebrate the announcement, the search giant is offering a different album, book, video rental and Android app at a special price each day over the next week in the company's «7 Days to Play» sale.

U.S. album sales declined in 2017 as streaming continues to grow, according to Nielsen's year - end music report released this week.